January 6, 1994: Tonya Harding’s Gang of Bumbling Criminals Attacks!

On this day in 1994, Shane Stant took a collapsible baton to Nancy Kerrigan‘s knee after one of her practice sessions at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, Michigan. Why is this pertinent to Oregon history? Because ends up the masterminds of this dastardly attack were Oregon figure skater Tonya Harding‘s husband, Jeff Gillooly and her bodyguard Shawn Eckardt, who hired Shane Stant to break Kerrigan’s leg so Tonya’s most formidable competitor of that era couldn’t skate.

Really, if the media, especially in Portland, had any access to you at all in the mid-90s, you know all this.